Next time your fencing bag is damaged...

[passata_sotto]

So next time the airlines (in this case United) damage your fencing bag write a song and post it on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

and sell it on itunes



ps here is an article regarding this situation in addition to the one posted on youtube:
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online...s-guitars.html

[Gav]

I've seen this before, and as much as I think it's awesome, I think it's really a WC thread.

[Karinka]

So next time the airlines (in this case United) damage your fencing bag write a song ......

My fencing bag WAS damaged on a United Flight!!! Entire wheel/wheel area was ripped off. I made a claim but the attendant said it was "normal wear and tear".

I did get a $50 certificate for airfare...but there were so many restrictions on it, I never used it.....

Karinka
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Salute!

[latenight]

United blows...I'd rather get fired than fly United.

[kmwong]

United blows...I'd rather get fired than fly United.

Better than Northwest...ugh.

[Inquartata]

From reading the guy's story, it wasn't the guitar case that was damaged, it was just the guitar inside.

Don't ask me how that's possible, but he says "I should have taken my hard case out of the padded protective exterior case to examine the guitar at the airport but I didn’t. The guitar case looked ok and we were tired, went to the hotel and then to sleep for our early morning pick-up by the tour managers the next day. When they picked us up in the early morning we would not be back in Omaha for seven days. It was later that day at sound check that I discovered that the base of my Taylor had been smashed."

So this thread is really wide of the mark.

[passata_sotto]

From reading the guy's story, it wasn't the guitar case that was damaged, it was just the guitar inside.

Don't ask me how that's possible, but he says "I should have taken my hard case out of the padded protective exterior case to examine the guitar at the airport but I didn’t. The guitar case looked ok and we were tired, went to the hotel and then to sleep for our early morning pick-up by the tour managers the next day. When they picked us up in the early morning we would not be back in Omaha for seven days. It was later that day at sound check that I discovered that the base of my Taylor had been smashed."

So this thread is really wide of the mark.

You are absolutely correct.

In order for this to apply all of my son's foils and/or mask would have to be broken inside a perfectly good fencing bag.

I guess I just empathized with the frustration because this year during flights to two of the NACs and to Nationals my youngest had two of the outside pockets ripped off, one of the zippers permanently destroyed, and the axle bent on his very nice allstar bag

But it isnt the same as having a $3500 guitar busted up.